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  1. terrydactyls
    Adrianza is fifth on the team in batting average. I don't think he is the problem.
  2. terrydactyls
    This might be a case for analytics to shut up for a moment and just observe. Regardless of what all the fancy acronyms are saying about his probability of regression, use the guy while he's still performing at a high level. None of the analytical acronyms can predict when the regression will happen. Heck, it may not happen until 2022. And then the analytic fans can say, "See. I told you it would happen." In the meantime, he might be the best reliever on the Twins.
  3. terrydactyls
    I went to Double A game last night and have this follow-up observation. In four times at bat, the #2 hitter (left handed) came up with the bases empty. Each time, the third baseman moved to shortstop and three infielders were between first and second. In all four at bats, the hitter took two strikes looking before swinging for the fences and missing badly. This was the #2 hitter for crying out loud. If he doesn't know how to bunt for a hit, then what has happened to fundamentals? By the way, his team lost by one run.
  4. terrydactyls
    I agree with everything in this post except "That said, I’ve had people inside baseball that I respect tell me that making such an adjustment isn’t quite that simple." When I was in High School and American Legion baseball, I spent hours after practice trying to hit any/all pitches thrown to me as a suicide bunt drill. I could lay down a bunt in fair territory on pitches behind my back, at my head, or even in the dirt. It wasn't easy but I learned to do it. There is no way a skilled professional hitter at the MLB level can't put the barrel of the bat on a bat and weakly roll it to the part of the infield the shift has vacated. I believe it is ego/vanity that prevents them from doing it. Roll enough bunt singles at a shift and it will end. If not, be content to hit .750.
  5. terrydactyls
    Sawyer is the second catcher in Rochester and he is hitting .316.
  6. terrydactyls
    Your last comment clearly puts you in a class of one on this site. Everyone else seems to be pretty definitive on what the Twins should have spent on every draft pick.
  7. terrydactyls
    The Twins have Winston Sawyer hitting .340 and Willians Astudillo hitting .280 in Rochester and Brian Navaretto hitting .270 in Chattanooga. How about giving one of them a shot before looking outside the organization? Despite the Cleveland series, I still think the Twins have no chance at the playoffs this year. Let's hold off on stripping the farm for a while.
  8. terrydactyls
    Check back in 2021 and let me know how this pick turned out.
  9. terrydactyls
    I love these "look backs" at what our experts had to say. Most seem to hate the pick. Oops... And I'm pretty sure most will hate tonight's two picks. I have found that I can claim great wisdom in the future by keeping my mouth shut now.
  10. terrydactyls
    I like the idea of a suspensful countdown for your minor league players of the month. But posting the winner's photo at the top of the article does take away some of the suspense (like 100% of it).
  11. terrydactyls
    Three pages into comments on the game and no one has mentioned Sano's barehand pickup and laser throw to first? Some people criticize Sano's fielding but I have found him to be a very reasonable third baseman. Plays like this one aren't commonplace.
  12. terrydactyls
    In my mind, the question is: Who has more value on June 15, 2018, Villalobos or whomever the Twins would have drafted? Villalobos is comparable to a college-age catcher being selected except he already has two years of professional experience. Getting rid of the Hughes salary for just $6M (assuming that money is spent on contract extensions for young Twins or free agents) is an added bonus. But the value of this trade won't be known for several years and that is frustrating.
  13. terrydactyls
    I would like to see a foot race between Lewis and Buxton, either straight line or around the bases. I see a future outfield of Lewis in left center and Buxton in right center, and either a five-person infield or a roving outfielder playing shallow to cutoff bloop hits. Just kidding but it could be a situational alignment.
  14. terrydactyls
    When I retired a few years ago, I relocated from Texas (too hot and too crowded) to Maine, in part because New Britain was an easy drive and was going to be loaded with future Twins. And then they moved to Chattanooga. Yuck.
  15. terrydactyls
    I looked up NSFW on Google and found it means "Not Suitale For Work" and that didn't seem to make sense. So I Googled "Basebal NSFW" and I got a long list of websites ofering pictures and videos of people having sex at stadiums. So I don't think that is what you meant by "Ryan Pressley is NSFW" in your list of positive things. What do you mean? Also, who are these guys named ED that you refer to several times?
  16. terrydactyls
    Weren't there two outs? If so, there is no internal clock. You are running full speed at the crack of the bat and you don't stop until either the third base holds you up or you cross home plate. That's basic baseball. Or it used to be before metrics dictated that 43% of those balls would be caught. No need for anyone to be thinking. Just run, Forest, run.
  17. terrydactyls
    The Twins "owe" Hughes a lot of money for 2018. But that's a sunk cost (unless they can convince another team to take on the contract - and that isn't going to happen) so it should be a non-issue. Is he useful? Keep him. If not, cut him. Not a difficult decision.
  18. terrydactyls
    As someone who has had both shoulders totally replaced, I can testify to the length and difficulty of the recovery process. I'm four and a half months into my recovery from the most recent surgery. Yesterday, I tried to throw a small pine cone into the woods and came up screaming. Still a long way to go.
  19. terrydactyls
    Garver's swing on his game winning double made e think of Harmon Killebrew.
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  21. terrydactyls
    Back in the early '80s, a group of us were sent to St. Louis by DoD to do an audit on a defense contractor. One of the younger members asked me if I knew how the arch was built. So I told her that the engineers first built a giant ring. When that was complete, they dug a giant hole that was as wide than the ring and as far across as the diameter of the ring. And lastly, with the help of giant cranes, the ring was placed upright in the hole and dirt dumped into the hole to stabilize the ring. She was very impressed.
  22. terrydactyls
    I guess I am the only person interested in how he does on the field and not how much he's paid.
  23. terrydactyls
    That pitch would ebe tough for even the best bunters. It was breaking down and in, and almost hit him in the foot. While I can agree that a passed ball or wild pitch might be a strong possibility, I also think a fast ball down the middle (and easy to bunt) was also highly likely. Baseball is somewhat of a guessing game and I guess the Twins just guessed wrong.
  24. terrydactyls
    It may just be my meory failing me (I'm old, damn it), but it seems to me that the Twis are promoting minor league pitchers much faster this year. Maybe the front office has been reading all the Twins Daily postings about challenging the young guns.
  25. terrydactyls
    Yu Darvish is 0-2 with a 5.26 ERA and a 1.44 WHIP. I think if he were on the Twins with those statistics, these columns would be filled with negative comments. It's time to forget about Darvish. It didn't happen and probably never would have happened. Let's deal with reality. I am glad to see Romero given a chance and I hope he's allowed to make several starts before any decisions are made. Curtiss might be the anti-Rodney we need closing games. And I like the idea that Gordon and Gonsalves might also be given an opportunity at the major league level soon.
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